Kuyaviak goes funky

Too stingy to buy stuff recorded on LP records anew on digital media - rather spending countless more expensive hours on digitizing them, I have made an exception for stuff I only have on cassette tape. The straightforward reasoning here is that I do not have any working cassette tape player anymore - and what does one do when waking up with a song in ones head?

iTunes to the rescue. Damn. Dayem! The music was so much better then. I downloaded some Jeff Beck group albums. "Rough and Ready" is a masterpiece, never mind the proto-hardrock vocals (they would have been Rod Stewards if Jeff did not have that car crash that broke up his first Group). The solo in Train Train was clearly the reason I started playing.

But this morning, for no apparent reason I woke up with a song that I did not hear for - well - 30 years? - which is Chinatown by Michal Urbaniak, the Polish Jazz Fusion Violinist. It is from Fusion III of 1975, but that took some Googling while on a phone conference. What a great album, why don't they make such music anymore, weird and way out, but melodic and full of drive and energy. Zbigniev Namyslovksy's Kuyaviak Goes Funky is also on there, as are some hardcore wordless vocals from Urszula Duziak.

It seems that my music processing has caught up till at least the early seventies. Odd that hardcore fusion stuff pops up in your head after an evening of hardcore coding. Well, my head, maybe not yours. Fusion III is playing now and pages in most of the seventies and early eighties. Next will probably be Herbie Hancock, Jean-Luc Ponty and Mahavishnu.